String Changes Report

The String Changes Report allows you to view and download the history of changes that were made to a translated string. Common use cases for this report include:

Auditing purposes, such as to see which changes were made to the content, and the number of changes.

Insight for translation teams to learn what was changed from the initial translation to the final published translation.

For Account Owners and Project Managers: You can view and download any set of content by using the following available filters:

Project

Job

Translation Language

Users

Content With/Without Changes

Date Authorized (for a specific timeframe)

For Agency Account Owners, Translation Resource Managers, Translators, Editors, and Reviewers: You can view and download content for which you participated. For example, if you're a Translator, you can view and download the translations of the workflow(s) for which you took part.

Access the String Changes Report

Log in to Smartling and select Reports > String Changes Report.

Filter for the information that you need then click Run Report. (Depending on your user role, you will see different filters.)

Data can be retrieved for the past 90 days, and a maximum of 500 items will be shown within the dashboard. However, when you download the content to a CSV, the full result set (anything more than 500) will be available in the file.

If you're downloading the report, make note of the following:

Edit Distance: The number of character changes in the content, between each step.

Edit Distance to Publish: The number of character changes from the current step to the final, published translation.

Fuzzy Score: If a fuzzy score is available, it will be displayed. If the content is SmartMatched, no Fuzzy Score will be available. The Fuzzy Score in the downloaded CSV file is represented by a number between 0 and 1000.

1000 represents a 100% match

995 represents a 99.5% match

etc.

Workflow Action: Shows the action that caused a translation to move to the next step in the workflow. Possible values include: